Ukase Issuer Quotes

#1. In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

Simon Baker

#2. You're so square, baby, I don't care.

Elvis Presley

#3. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#4. You think to yourself that if anyone knew who you really were, what you've really done, they would never accept you.

Emily P. Freeman

#5. It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

Jacob Lief

#6. Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.

Spiros Zodhiates

#7. Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.

Kiki Dee

#8. In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.

Arnulf Rainer

#9. The Great Sadness
You can't look at yourself
in the ocean.
Your looks fall apart
like tendrils of light.
Night on earth.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#10. The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Jean Cocteau

#11. There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Rumi

#12. A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#13. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

#14. The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.

Alberto Manguel